[quote='padraic' pid='85144' dateline='1281165666']
Puzzles me too. I recently had a conversation with a 60-something Christian who used to be an agnostic. He says he became a Christian when he was like 40-something and attributes belief to helping him quit drugs and alcohol. I couldn't get him to precisely pinpoint why he believes. His best answer seems to be that it's just an accumulation of details from the Bible, ID, and the like. He also said life just didn't make sense without there being something else. That's the best most can do.
Quote:I must admit, adult converts to any religion bemuse me. I can only conclude they are damaged and emotionally needy human beings with a very modest IQ, such as say little Tommy Cruise and various other celebrity Scientologists.
Puzzles me too. I recently had a conversation with a 60-something Christian who used to be an agnostic. He says he became a Christian when he was like 40-something and attributes belief to helping him quit drugs and alcohol. I couldn't get him to precisely pinpoint why he believes. His best answer seems to be that it's just an accumulation of details from the Bible, ID, and the like. He also said life just didn't make sense without there being something else. That's the best most can do.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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